= What's new in Gerrit 2.7
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== What's new in Gerrit 2.7

== What's new in Gerrit 2.7
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.7.html[
Release Notes]

* Statistics
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|                 |Gerrit 2.7 |Gerrit 2.6 |Gerrit 2.5 |Gerrit 2.4
|commits &#x278a; |272        |1301       |508        |122
|resolved issues
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.7[9]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.6[85]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.5[51]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.4[35]
|contributors     |31         |56         |34         |22
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&#x278a; without merge commits

== Patch Sets with draft comments are highlighted

This makes it more obvious that there are unpublished comments.

image:../../img/highlight-patch-set-with-draft-comments.png[]

== Better support for images in diff screens

.Side-by-Side
image:../../img/image-comparison-side-by-side.png[]

.Unified-Diff
image:../../img/image-comparison-unified-diff.png[]

== Option to show relative times in change tables

A new preference setting allows the user to decide if absolute or
relative dates should be shown in change tables.

.Relative Dates
image:../../img/relative-dates.png[]

== Support for user avatars

.On Change Screen
image:../../img/avatar-change-screen.png[]

.For Inline Comments
image:../../img/avatar-inline-comment.png[]

== Auto-Merge on Push

Teams that want to use Gerrit’s submit strategies to handle contention
on busy branches can use `%submit` to create a change and have it
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/user-upload.html#auto_merge[
immediately submitted], if the caller has Submit permission on
`refs/for/<ref>`.


== Project specific configuration

It is now possible to define
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-gerrit.html#_a_id_commentlink_a_section_commentlink[
commentlinks] and
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-themes.html[
themes] on project level.

== Sticky approvals for review labels

Review labels can now be configured so that the highest possible
positive value for the label is copied forward when a new patch set is
uploaded. This is done by setting
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-labels.html#label_copyMaxScore[
copyMaxScore] on the label.

== REST API

Several new
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api.html[
REST API endpoints] were added.

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